Bumper Crop

Bumper Crop

Create a children's garden in old toys. Bonus feature: You can wheel them in and out of the sunlight when necessary. Use a metal drill bit to create drainage holes about 6" apart, and cover with screen mesh to prevent any loss of soil.

2. Cut seven 18" pieces of fishing line. Tie a bell to the end of each strand.

3. Put a dot of tacky glue on bottle cap, set the fishing line in the glue (starting about an inch above the bell), and sandwich it with a button. Repeat five or six times per strand, about 12" up the piece of fishing line. Let dry.

4. Feed the ends of all strands through the holes of a large button (it must be bigger than the pot's drainage hole) and secure with a knot about 4 1/2" above the top bottle cap. Feed the strands up through the drainage hole.

5. So that the strands don't cluster in the middle, hot-glue fishing line to the inside edge of the pot, evenly spaced around the circumference.

6. Tie another piece of fishing line in a tight knot to the top to hang.